“Houser’s prose is intensely metaphorical, reflective, and marked by a sharp, tragi-comic wit.” —Publishers Weekly's Booklife

"A fleet-footed romp of a book with some sneakily perceptive insights into larger human questions." —Kirkus

“Beautifully written, with gems of insight on every page, The Geography of Saying Goodbye has worlds to say about children and parents, freedom and constraint—urgent yet quietly comic, just this side of absurd.” —Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations

"Who are our mothers? How do we live without them when they’re gone? Trevor J. Houser transforms these impossible questions into a death-defying narrative that never flags, that brims with life, that turns itself inside out just when you think you know what’s coming. A high-wire act of a novel, as wacky as it is tender and grave, with a stand-up comic’s sense of timing." —Paul Lisicky, author of Song So Wild and Blue

“The Geography of Saying Goodbye is a funny and devastating novel about the impossible math of losing a parent. Houser has a rare gift for finding the absurd at life’s exact center.” —Peter Mountford, author of A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism and The Dismal Science